A campaign of public retaliation and personal incentives has taught current and former public servants to stay silent.

Panic about a 'rogue clerk' is likely unwarranted—but it's worth paying attention.

AI governance and the remaking of an independent commission.

OLC’s recent opinion about the PCA is unmoored from statute and case law and has dangerous implications for domestic uses of the military. 

A bill to automatically fund the government in an appropriations lapse would end shutdowns—except the Two-Year Clause forbids funding the Army permanently.

A deal that disarms Hamas may not disarm Gaza.

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A review of Kevin Arlyck, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

It is a global model for its domestic, not international, legal origins. Future peace may be the real cost of de la Espriella’s attacks.